Especially since launching postgres is equally easy and fast as sqlite. Docker can help with sandboxing. What is left to gain? 100ms shorter startup time or keeping your unit test executables as single binaries? Irrelevant.
Especially since launching postgres is equally easy and fast as sqlite. Docker can help with sandboxing. What is left to gain? 100ms shorter startup time or keeping your unit test executables as single binaries? Irrelevant.
It's definitely not as fast to start postgres as it is to start sqlite. Pretty much inherently - postgres has to fork a bunch of processes, establishes network connectivity etc. And running trivial queries will always be faster with sqlite, because executing queries via postgres will require intra-process context switches.
That's not to say postgres is bad (I've worked on it for most of my career), but there just are inherent advantages and disadvantages of in-process databases vs out-of-process databases. And lower startup time and lower "dispatch" overhead are advantages of in-process databases.